Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 10 “The One True Tree of Life” (p. 261)
America...You Kill Me
'The Continuing Insult to the English Language' (The Monthly, May 2006)
Essays and reviews
Context: ... by now some of the editors and subeditors [on Fleet Street] are themselves products of the anti-educational orthodoxy by which expressiveness counts above precision. It would, if the two terms were separable. But they aren't. Beyond a certain point - and that point is reached early - precision is what expressiveness depends on.
“Certainty is missing the point entirely.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point.”
Source: Once Upon a Marigold
2011-02-23
Glenn Beck
Television
Fox News
2011-02-24
Beck: "We Have A President Who Apparently Loves Instability and Revolution"
2011-02-23
Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201102230041
2011-02-24
2010s, 2011
“The point that the Democrats missed was that the people who weren’t rich wanted to be rich.”
"The Dirty Trickster" (2008)
Source: Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962), p. 7
“You miss the point? The lady that spares her lover spares herself too little.”
Asinaria, Act I, scene 3.
Asinaria (The One With the Asses)
“People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.”
Books, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
Source: When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
